Sacramento, Calif.— The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and NOAA Fisheries worked with Full Frame Productions to produce Saving Species Together, a video program and educational campaign highlighting positive stories of collaboration between private land managers, resource agencies, non-profits, and local citizens to protect threatened and endangered species. By building conservation communities that include all stakeholders, we put ourselves in a better position to address the challenges facing listed species, making recovery more possible.
The half hour film will be broadcast on PBS stations starting in November, 2020. There are over 30 telecasts scheduled, with more to come. Scheduled telecasts include KVCR (San Bernardino) 11/18 at 6:30 p.m., KVIE (Sacramento) 12/16 at 7 p.m., and KQED (San Francisco) 12/16 at 11:00 p.m. Check your local listings or see our list of airings here.
The four species featured in the program are:
• Western Snowy Plover: Resource managers and volunteers help protect and restore habitat for the Western snowy plover at Point Reyes National Seashore and the Mike Thompson Wildlife Area, South Spit Humboldt Bay.
• Coho Salmon: Coho specialists from a timber company, a non-profit, and NOAA Fisheries help juvenile Coho salmon in the Eel River Watershed.
• San Joaquin Kit Fox: Resource managers, nonprofits and a solar company find ways to protect the endangered San Joaquin kit fox in urban environments and on a 26,500-acre preserve in the Central Valley.
• California Tiger Salamander: Resource managers, private developers and biological consultants work together to protect the California tiger salamander in native habitat in northern California grasslands.
Visit SavingSpeciesTogether.org to view the individual videos, information about the featured species, information on what private landowners and the public can do to help listed species, plus campaign outreach materials and other resources. Filmmaker Kevin White and several of the resource scientists are available for interviews.
